Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

las, who made the part of the millionaire junkman famous, until she came to Hollywood. She was having lunch at Romanoff's with her agent, Louis Schurr, when Paul dropped by the table. He asked to drive her home. Jan was recovering from a broken heart and paid him little attention. In December, 1949, she was in New York and with a girl friend went to see Paul in "Everybody Does It." -Jan said to her friend, "How did I ever let that slip through my fingers?" When she returned to the Coast in February they started dating. In April, they announced their engagement. "I trapped him," she said jubilantly. They had no divorce problems, no religious problems. "There's no plot," complained Paul. Paul's little six-year-old daughter, Maggie, loved Jan. And Jan's mother, who has moved to Hollywood, adored Paul. Jan and Paul were married in Hollywood in a civil ceremony in May and went to La Jolla for a weekend honeymoon. Jan promptly flew to New Mexico on the "Ace In The Hole" location, and Paul has been assigned to one picture after another. So they are still waiting for the big honeymoon which they hope to take in Europe. The Douglases have a lease that runs until 1952 on a huge house in Bel-Air that was built by a beer baron friend of Howard Hughes in the glamourous and ostentatious Twenties. It's the house that Paramount should have used for "Sunset Boulevard." It has a 300-foot pool (with bridges and tunnels) where Bill Holden should have been found floating with bullets in his back. It has waterfalls, a picnic ground, a pool room and a ballroom, among other standard equipment of that lush era. "But the library is cozy," says Jan, and that's where the Douglases live when they're at home. Maggie does her painting and her personalized type of interior decorating in the ballroom. When their lease is up they plan to move into an apartment. Two cats and two love birds share this baronial estate with them. Mitzi, a Siamese, with a sweet disposition, was given them by the Dean Jaggers. And Frieda, a striped tiger cat with personality, was given them by the James Masons. Jan bought the love birds for Maggie, who promptly named them Caroline and Anthony John. There is no jealousy in the Douglas household. Though Paul pretends to be hurt that the modest young actress he married is turning out to be a celebrity. Paul does a lot of the cooking — Jan hates to cook — and without the slightest effort he dishes up a treat of baked fish with bay leaves and wine sauce. "And his eggplant is out of this world," says Jan. "Paul says my grammar is terrible," says Jan. "I tell him that's from playing 'Born Yesterday' so long. He should have known me in the old days when I had a fancy English accent." Jan claims that she's inclined to be a bit messy about the house. 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